Law for Computing Students
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776814717
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 1.1. The purpose of this book; title: 1.2. Geographical perspective; title: 1.3. Further reading; title: 2. The nature of English law; title: 2.1. Different jurisdictions; title: 2.2. Is IT law special?; title: 2.3. The nature of the adversaries; title: 2.4. Sources of law; title: 2.5. Bases of legal authority; title: 3. Faulty supplies; title: 3.1. Breach of contract v. tort; title: 3.2. IT contracts; title: 3.3. Letters of intent; title: 3.4. Interpretation of contracts; title: 3.5. Torts; title: 4. Intellectual property; title: 4.1. The growing importance of intangible assets; title: 4.2. Copyright and patent; title: 4.3. Do we need intellectual-property laws?; title: 4.4. Copyright for software; title: 4.5. Two software-copyright cases; title: 4.6. Databases; title: 4.7. The focus shifts from copyright to patent; title: 4.8. The nature of patent law; title: 4.9. Is software patentable?; title: 4.10. Some software-patent cases; title: 4.11. The American position; title: 4.12. An unstable situation; title: 5. Law and rapid technical change: a case study; title: 5.1. Film versus video; title: 5.2. The Attorney General seeks a ruling; title: 5.3. Pornography meets the internet; title: 5.4. Are downloads publications?; title: 5.5. Censoring videos; title: 5.6. The difficulty of amending the law; title: 5.7. R. v. Fellows and Arnold; title: 5.8. Allowing downloads is “showing”; title: 5.9. What is a copy of a photograph?; title: 5.10. Uncertainties remain; title: 5.11. The wider implications; title: 6. Personal data rights; title: 6.1. Data protection and freedom of information; title: 6.2. The Freedom of Information Act; title: 6.3. Limiting the burden; title: 6.4. Implications for the private sector; title: 6.5. Government recalcitrance; title: 6.6. Attitudes to privacy; title: 6.7. Is there a right to privacy in Britain?; title: 6.8. The history of data protection; title: 6.9. The Data Protection Act in outline; title: 6.10. The Bodil Lindqvist case; title: 6.11. The Data Protection Act in more detail; title: 6.12. Is the law already outdated?; title: 7. Web law; title: 7.1. The internet and contract; title: 7.2. Ownership of domain names; title: 7.3. Web 2.0 and defamation; title: 8. Regulatory compliance; title: 8.1. Sarbanes–Oxley and after; title: 8.2. Accessibility; title: 8.3. E-discovery; title: 8.4. Conclusion; title: 9. Endnotes